PHILOS 25B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Baruch Spinoza
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The idea of necessary connection: mistake of induction/causality: this relation of our ideas reflects a causal relation in the world, difference between claims, night is always followed by day a. i. Accidental/arbitrary connection a. i. 1. constant conjunction: night causes day b. i. b. ii. claims something stronger. Internal will/causes a. things are no difference in inner experience than outer experience. Mind is caused to expect b when it sees a a. I don"t think what i am doing is legitimate, it is just what i have observed. I lectured last thursday: descartes: i: thinking substance, spinoza: i: thinking mode, berkeley: i: finite mind, hume: i: all you have are perceptions/sensations. 2. impressions are fleeting, so there is nothing aware of throughout, so there is no enduring.
